the ballet

K and I had a really good night last night. it was really fun to watch
her get all excited when she finally found out where we were going. we
got there about 6, but they didnt open the doors til 6:30. she kept
saying "arent they going to let us IN??" LOL!
I tell you what, she's a terrible talker though! All through the show it
was "why are they doing that, why arent they wearing ballet shoes, those
guys sure do look funny in tights!, what's wrong with her costume?..."
she was still happy about it though. I asked afterwards if she'd go to
another ballet and she happily said yes, so that's all that matters, huh?
we were worried at first that she'd have a problem seeing. we were
pretty far in the back adn she had to look over the adults in front of
her. luckily she's 5' tall, so it wasnt so bad. there were much smaller
kids around us who had to sit in their parents laps to be able to see.
(good thing K didnt need to do that, 95lbs is NOT sitting in my lap! LOL).
I do have a few pics to share, but my pictures folder doesnt want to
open right now til I reboot so I'll have to do it later. no pics of the
actual ballet, I got a few short video pieces though.
we stopped at Arbys afterwards for a meal and I should have just gotten
a kids meal. cant believe I forgot to think of that. I got a beef and
cheddar and man, had to let K finish half my fries and didnt eat some of
my bread cause it as too much.

daddy survived with the boys at home. just some minor things that could
have happened while I was here too.

I started working on the booties to go with baby girls crocheted dress
yesterday. I'm just using a pink color that goes with the pink camo the
dress is. I *may* try to make a hat for it as well, not sure yet, we'll
see when I get these booties done. LOL!

ew!

I forgot to mention the gross part of the day. today after driving home, G was asleep in the van, so I let him rest a bit (under the carport, in the shade with all the van doors open) he woke not long after we'd gotten all the stuff in the house. so I go to get him and realize he's blowed his britches up.  after holding him at arms length to get him inside to change (  :-D ) I go out to check the carseat and the pooh has run all down INTO the carseat frame!  so I get it out and start wrangling the cover off. how freaking hard does it have to be to get a cover off?? I got it all off except 2 elastic bands that were attached under a bracket bar underneath (where the poop was all pooled up of course) so I just snipped those off.  It seriously took me a good half hour to get that off! sheesh! then I had to spray out the seat frame and get it all dried. nasty. never had a blowout to do that bad before. yuck!

booger's in bed now. hopefully for a LONG restful night.

K's ear is still hurting. I remembered I had some ear drops that FSIL had just given me a couple weeks ago, so we're using those now and a tylenol every few hours if she needs it. she's been very grouchy today so I sent her to bed early. which of course hurt her feelings, but what are ya gonna do? *sigh*

grrrrrrrrrrr

oy, I'm in a F O U L mood today. some certain little booger went to bed easily at 10, then woke up at 12 and guess what time he went back to sleep? go ahead, guess.
4 a.m.!! and want to know what time he woke up? 9:30! so I'm a wee bit irritable this morning. I've no tolerance for whining today.
no where to go until C's practice today.
K has an earache that started up yesterday. some tylenol helped last night (and when G quit fussing)

to do list

I'll be taking gavin to the dr at 1:30 today for his poison ivy shot. he
keeps spreading it to other places and I'm ready to be done with it
before he spreads it to another kid!

almost here!

ok, the only things left on my list are to:
frost the cakes
wrap the gifts
make dirt cups


I'll be getting pics of everything tomorrow as I can. we'll have plenty of food for everyone and they better all come hungry! LOL!!
I patted out about 18 burgers today, skewered about 20 kabobs tonight (some all shrimp, some shrimp/chicken/pineapple), got the ranch dip made, sliced the kiwi (4 lbs worth!), 2 lbs of strawberries, and have 2 lbs of grape tomatoes and also red seedless grapes and a pound of cubed sharp cheddar cheese.
plus we'll have tater salad, chips/crackers, hot dogs, little smokies, bratz and of course cake and ice cream!

got the gift bags made up today, hope the other 2 girls that katlyn invited get to come. (they said they would).

katlyn, cousin heather and friend dana are here tonight, along with G. the other boys stayed wtih my mom (woo!). the girls are still awake, but they'll be going to bed when I'm done with this. I'd told them they could stay up as long as they wanted, as long as they were quiet... well, dana is one that cant keep quiet. :-D I can hear her all the way in here at my desk, so they'll have to call it a night to make sure the baby sleeps. (the girls are camping out in the boys room and G is in his bed).

I'm really excited about tomorrow. I think I'll start on the cakes first thing (well, may do the other 2 things first, we'll see...) but it looks like it should go pretty easy tomorrow.
all this working my butt off should pay off!

oh, big G news! he's cutting another tooth! its his bottom left canine. go figure! he'll have a big gap between his two bottom teeth and that one. a little vampire. the other side isnt showing like the left is, so he'll be crooked for a while too. cute!

AND he's got a new tantrum he does. he gets mad, flops down on his butt and proceeds to push himself around with his feet in circles until he flops on the floor! I call it his Curly Shuffle. we all crack up watching him do it and dh says I need to get it on video (which I will!)

ok, off to shoo some girls to bed and hit the sack myself! *yawn!!*
see ya'll on the flip side!

Happy Birthday K!

happy 10th birthday Katlyn! we love you baby girl!

 

 

make a wish!

Happy Birthday

to our little princess! She turns 10 years old today. *sniff*
I cant believe she's been with us for a decade already.
she's our Baby Girl and we love her!

Happy Birthday Katlyn!

10 months

10 month recap of all my kiddos!

starting at the top
Canaan: 32 1/2", 26 lbs


Katlyn: 31 1/2", 22.7 lbs


Gavin: 32 3/4", 26.5 lbs



Hunter: 32", 25 lbs


Garrett: 31 3/4", 23 lbs



I think its neat to see that G is the lightest of all the boys so far. he's on the size scale of Katlyn, which is nice for my hip. LOL! plus he has her curly type hair, but more like Gavin's as his wasnt as curly as K's. he's also walking at 10 months which is what K did. I think that's cool. (not to mention they both had/have reflux issues and such).
and cant you tell from Hunter's pic that he was going to be a handfull?

florida trip

 

the kids went to FL back in Jan. with my parents. I forgot to ever post pics! :) they were in the Daytona and St.

 

 

 

 

 

 

They said the birds were crazy. They fed them out of their hands.

 

 

 

the St. Augustine Lighthouse

 

 

Being silly. :)

 

more loose teeth!

kids are doing up some work before we head out. G-man has his 9 month checkup today and there's ball practice at 4, so it'll be a long afternoon again. :P
I'm thinking of using the kids free PP pizza coupons for lunch before we go to the ped. it'll be a treat since its been forever since we've been to pizza hut.
stacy, not much bloodshed here. plenty of arguing and such, but its to be expected. they all love each other though and watch out for each one.

speaking of teeth, katlyn still hadnt lost that snaggle tooth. her own doing though, you just touch it and she starts crying about it. I'm actually going to see if the dr till give it a yank today. who knows, maybe she feels the calling of a dentist!
BUT in a big surprise, Canaan lost ANOTHER tooth last night! it was the molar behind the molar he'd just pulled the night before. it'd felt loose, but he didnt actually think it was a pull tooth, just would tighten back up. nope! he was eating some ice last night and it started flopping around. he went to show sis (in a "look, I'm pulling 2 teeth and you've still got your one to yank!" type of taunt) and while he was holding onto it to show her, she smacked his hand and it popped out. that was easy! couse now he's got a BIG gap on the side of his mouth. and dang if I dont owe him another dollar today.

we've got an epidemic of tooth loss around here! I got gavin over to check his teeth JIC! his are all in tight though. I asked if he'd been super gluing them in. hehe!

loose teeth

we've got drama today. katlyn's got a loose tooth and is trying to pull it out herself. this girl is SO not a do it herself type of puller. its been an hour and the tooth is still not out, but tons of tears later....
canaan pulled his 2nd molar last night. it took a few days for that one, but he was so glad it came out finally.

its cold outside!

we didnt go bowling yesterday, was way too late after getting the groceries done. cool news though, I saved over $60 on my food yesterday!  still spent a lot, but I've stocked up! probably wont have to get anything but milk next week.

garrett is trying to help me type if you find odd stuff in here. lOL

so I had to pull out his next size shoes today. size 4. yep, kid's gonna have big feet. at least I've got plenty of shoes for him (I only use them to help keep his feet warm through the winter). I took an extra pair to my brother today for Landon. My friend Lisa had given me a pair of Nike Shox (black) with that box of 12m stuff and I found a pair just like them only silver in his clothes trunk. same size and all. Landon is only in a 3 still, so he's got an extra pair now. :) I've got at least 4 other pair of size 4's for Garrett, so no loss here! (all given between the last 3 kids).

I was late getting to bed last night cause Katlyn didtn want to go to sleep. she'd had a bad dream the night before and didnt tell me about it til bedtime and was then upset (crying upset). so I had to have a heart to heart with her. it was about 11:30 when Garrett got to bed then. and about 1 when I did.  I hate trying to go to bed when the wind is carrying on so much and it was awful last night!
Garrett woke at 4 to eat and was restless cause I dindt hear him at first cause of the noise of the wind. so by the time I got in there he had already crawled down to one end of the bed and had turned around and was on his way back up. LOL! when he seen me he lunged at me and when I picked him up, he grabbed me and started kissing my face!  (his kisses are to start sucking on your cheek and licking it  ). so I ended up laying on the couch with him to nurse til he went to sleep. dh woke me up about 6 this morning to do that. LOL!

we're going to go to my moms in a bit. she invited us over for dinner tonight and to spend the day. I'll get DSL over there. *woo!* got some stuff to upload and all that as well so will keep busy!

2m check today and other stuff

today is Garrett's 2m check up! I'm not looking forward to the shots, but eager to see how much he weighs! I know how long he is and how big his head is (can measure those myself) but since I don't have a baby scale and weighing him on ours is only a round about thing (it says he's 13 lbs) we'll know for sure today.

he peed all over our bed this morning. course its my fault cause I should have changed him at some point during the night, but dang if he doesn't HATE to have that done during the nighttime. hearing him scream and holler at 4 am is not my cup of tea.

katlyn is still not up to snuff. no fever now, but lots of headaches and stuffy noses and chapped lips. since she'll be with us today, I'm going to ask the dr if they'll take a peek at her (w/o charging ) just to make sure it's nothing I should worry about or get stronger meds for.

today is the last day the 'good' consignment store will be open. *boo!* I'm hoping to stop in and see if I can find anything else or to pick up some good hangers. she let me have a bunch of plastic baby hangers the last time I was in.

oh, I've already gotten G2's 2m pics taken here at home. got his footprints and even a handprint in his baby book for this month too. his foot has really grown during this last month! He can already wear a size 2 shoe cause I've got a pair of cute Dockers for him in size 2 and they'd fit fine, they just look so clunky on his legs. plus no reason for him to wear them, unless to go with a cute outfit to church or something. oh well.

OH, speaking of THAT! I was out with the baby last week... where was I?...maybe Wal-Mart... not sure. but anyway, he was in his carseat, so I was toting it around (must not have been Wal-Mart-anyway) I was behind this couple who were probably in their 40's and the wife turned and cautioned the hubby to watch out cause there was a baby behind him (he was bending over checking something out). so he turns around and awes "oh, a baby!" then says "with no shoes" (in a *tsk tsk* sort of voice) and they move on.



ok, for one BIG MAJOR thing, the child was only 7 weeks old and SURE aint walking/crawling and such. WHY use shoes???
PLUS its a freaking 100 degrees outside!! geez. stupid people get on my nerves.
that just struck me and I wanted to share it last week with ya'll, but forgot.

FIL and teeth!

all right, finally a happy post again!
two good things today/tonight.
FIL is here with us. they released him tonight to come home to rest and recoup until he goes back for a colonoscopy on the 21st. (yeah, he's real thrilled about that ). he's got to go get some scripts filled tomorrow and go grocery shopping cause they put him on a strict diet and no more than 50 grams of fat a day. (egads!) he's miffed about that (no cornbread, biscuits, chocolate, etc LOL) but he said he's had to do it before and can make it again.

the next thing is Katlyn lost another tooth tonight! been a long time since a tooth was pulled here, but we've been waiting on this little hanger-oner for a long time too! its her upper incisor to (her) left of her two front teeth. the permanent had already started to come in behind it, so it's got some repositioning to do. she just will NOT tell ya if a tooth is loose, so I remembered tonight about checking it friday while at mcds and told dh before he went to bed. he agreed that it needed to come out now. poor little girl, she just does not do pain well at all! many tears and hiccups later though he got it out for her. I know she'll feel better when its healed. its been tender on her for a while, but she just refused to say anything!
afterwards, she asked if she'd get $5 for it. I told her that would depend on what the tooth fairy had in her pocket.
the funny thing was Gavin and Hunter's reaction. "what is daddy doing to Sissy?!" "why is he taking her tooth out?!" "why is she crying?!" "will he put it back?" "why is it bleeding?" "ew, yucky!!" ( )
Hunter would NOT touch the tooth afterwards. Gavin (being the budding scientist he is) held it and examined it, still not sure why we had to take her tooth from her. LOL!
then we asked him if he had any loose... "nope!" LOL! which I do expect it soon though. both C and K were 5 when their first teeth came out, so Gav is just in the waiting game.
one thing for sure, Katlyn will need braces at some point. I dont know where she got such a tiny jaw from, but her teeth are very crowded. her bottom jaw sticks out beyond her upper jaw as well by about maybe 1/4". her pediatrician said it was from her having such fast growth spurts and being so tall cause she had gone through the same thing as a child (the ped lady being about 6' tall). she said back then they had to break her jaw and reset it into position, but today they have less traumatic ways of taking care of it (thank God!). hopefully we can get some sort of dental insurance before that is a must to help with all that.

Canaan also has one wiggly tooth, but at the rate its going it'll be another year before its ready. its his lower canine on the left. its been the same wiggly for a while now, so no rush. he did get 'miffed' tonight and asked "why does Katlyn get to lose all her teeth?" ( ) and I reminded him that he's already gone through most of his tooth losing already. silly boy!